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[Mark @Mark4XX]

AFRICA'S GOLD BANK JUST WENT LIVE: THE DOLLAR IS BEING CUT OUT

Africa just made a quiet but seismic move. Central banks are building their own gold bank and a continent-wide payment system that deliberately bypasses the US dollar while opening a direct gold corridor straight to China. The masses still have no idea this is happening.

THE AFRICAN AWAKENING
➡️ On July 20 the central banks of Egypt and Eswatini sat down to advance both PAPSS and a pan-African gold bank.
➡️ The driving force is identical to China’s: escape dollar dependence before the next sanctions hammer falls.
➡️ Russia’s frozen reserves and the deliberate dollar squeeze on Iran taught them the lesson. They are acting on it.

THE PAPSS BREAKTHROUGH
➡️ Afreximbank’s Pan-African Payment and Settlement System already links banks in 28 countries.
➡️ The Central Bank of the Central African States just joined, bringing the six CFA-franc nations with it.
➡️ Transactions now clear in roughly seven seconds. Western dollar banks lose real-time visibility.
➡️ Daily settlement still runs through Afreximbank in dollars. That is exactly where gold can replace the dollar as the final settlement asset.

THE GOLD BANK PLAN
➡️ On 29 December Afreximbank and the Egyptian central bank formally decided to create a pan-African gold bank.
➡️ Goal: strengthen central-bank reserves, build African refineries and trading hubs, and keep physical gold on the continent.
➡️ A gold refinery is scheduled to open in an Egyptian free-trade zone by year-end. McKinsey is writing the feasibility study right now.

THE CHINA CONNECTION
➡️ China’s CIPS system has already signed partnerships with Afreximbank and other regional banks to create offshore yuan centers.
➡️ Hong Kong’s Christopher Hui is personally building gold corridors with Ghana and Laos.
➡️ A joint venture between the Hong Kong Gold Exchange and Alibaba’s AGTech is preparing a digital platform so gold can serve as collateral and tokenized payment.
➡️ The design is clear: African gold stays in African vaults under Chinese-linked oversight while settlement shifts into yuan.

THE RESERVE REALITY
➡️ China imported 196 tonnes net in May and 180 tonnes in June.
➡️ Official PBOC purchases were only 10 and 15 tonnes. Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate the real May figure closer to 50 tonnes.
➡️ Physical gold is being pulled into a new system that the West still pretends does not exist.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Africa is no longer waiting for permission. It is building the rails, the vaults and the corridors that let physical gold settle trade outside the dollar. The quiet reconstruction of the monetary order is already underway.
The window to understand it is still open. Most people will notice only after the door has closed.

HT: Rohstoff Investor
#AfricaGold #PAPSS #GoldCorridor #DeDollarization #ChinaAfrica #GoldBank #PhysicalGold

[BJP Tamilnadu @BJP4TamilNadu]

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[CA Afzal Lokhandwala @afzal_57]

#COPPER was stuck in a range from 1993 to 2005 ($1.7 to $2.45). It broke out of the range in Q2 2005 (moving 45% from the swing low), and FURTHER moved up by 100% in just a year. See the chart.

#COPPER was stuck in a range from 2011 to 2025 ($3 to $5.6). It broke out of the range in Jan 2026 (moving 30% from the swing low), and FURTHER would move up by __ % in just a year. Take a guess!

Copper may shock the world when it doubles from here, but not serious chart readers.

[Manu Rishi Guptha @manurishiguptha]

Is it the end of the Road for Silver and Gold?

Conviction is tested only in drawdowns but never in rallies.

And that forms the bedrock of the cliched statement - Buy when there is blood on the street, but the blood better not be yours.

I've been investing in precious metals since 2021. It took me six months of reading, tracking mine production, annual supply degrowth, and rising demand before I built my first real position on the 6th September 2021. Since then, I've followed the data closely every day.

My rule is simple:

Only take positions where your conviction is so strong that you could possibly go all-in. If it's not, you're just gambling, no matter how much you call it - "diversification."

Yesterday, Silver was down about 30% and gold 10% from recent highs. Here's the psychology everyone faces: We all dream of buying assets 30-40% cheaper. But deep down, we want prices to stay high forever. We crave the dip to buy low, and expect prices move up from the day we bought. That's human nature.

Gold and silver have been used as money and a store of value for over 6,000 years. Fiat currencies, on the other hand, are experiments backed by debt. The US moved away from the gold standard in 1933 domestically and 1971 internationally, because infinite debt could not coexist with monetary discipline. And therefore, the petrodollar came into being.

History is very clear on one thing: Every Fiat currency eventually collapses. (Ray Dalio’s take makes it very clear in one of his now very famous videos)

The only uncertainty is timing, whether the Fiat currencies will collapse slowly or suddenly.

And whether we are at the end of the Fiat system today or not - maybe not yet.

But are we moving towards it faster than ever before - Definitely Yes!!

So decisions to buy, hold, or sell precious metals should not be driven by daily price moves, but by your understanding of history, monetary systems, and your own temperament.

Retail investors can't slam prices like this. Over the last 10 years, big banks paid $1.3 billion in fines for spoofing Silver (data is all online).

Yesterday, with China closed and late LME trading, the "Big Boys" likely dumped to spook you out, clearing shorts or loading longs.

Its pertinent to ask a question:
When LME trading was thin and China was shut, who really slammed the price? It wasn’t retail. Price shocks often serve one purpose: scare weak hands, so that large players can exit shorts and quietly build long positions.

This fact is worth noting:
For every ounce of physical Silver available, there are about 400 ounces traded on paper. For Gold, it's around 200 paper ounces per physical one.

Inventories at metal exchanges around the world are depleting fast.

Those recent exchange outages? They're not about power failures or server cooling issues, but it's about the exchanges struggling to meet contractual obligations as paper contract holders are starting to demand physical delivery, and the system can't keep up with that.

Can prices fall more? Sure, they can. Position size is personal, tied to your conviction and biases.

But fast-forward 10 years: Gold at $10K, $15K, or $20K? Silver at $300 or $500? and y0u'll kick yourself for getting shaken out by “The Pros” who do this for a living.

Or keep buying the dip on Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Zomato, Trent, Polycab, all at unsustainable earnings (PE) ratios.

Eventually, your fortune will be the sum total of the choices you make today.

Fun Fact: Respectively, Silver and Gold are still up 270% and 140% in the last 2 years.

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[SilverTrade @silvertrade]

🚨COMEX GOLD DELIVERIES GO NUCLEAR!🏦

🔥20,484 Feb Gold Delivery Notices Issued!

⚡️MASSIVE GOLD PRICE SLAM FAILS TO SLOW AVALANCHE OF DELIVERY NOTICES ON FIRST NOTICE DAY!

➡️Deutsche Bank Issued 2,387 Notices
🔥JP Morgan Issued 11,959 Notices, & Stopped 7,995 Notices!
➡️UBS Issued 2,379 Notices

🚨Total of 2.05 Million oz of Gold Notices Issued on First Notice Day!

[Indiabullion.com 🇮🇳 @indiabullioncom]

#Geopolitical situations which might spoil the #Gold #Silver rally - any news on solution to US Govt #Shutdown, #peace talks with #Iran, truce on #Russia #Ukraine #war, #Denmark and other #EU countries ceding #Greenland to @realDonaldTrump’s demands.

[Forbes @Forbes]

.@SteveForbesCEO explains why President Trump's support for a declining dollar is not only wrongheaded but dangerous, and why a strong denomination is key to our nation's domestic and international safety. #WhatsAhead

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

JPMORGAN SEES GOLD SURGING TOWARD $8,000

Gold could keep rallying as private investors increase allocations from 3% to 4.6% of portfolios, JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou says, potentially pushing prices to $8,000–$8,500 an ounce. Gold recently hit $5,600 amid safe-haven demand, central bank buying, and a shift from long-term bonds. While momentum may spark short-term profit-taking, gold shows stronger liquidity and breadth than silver or bitcoin.

[ITM Trading @ITMTrading]

Robert Kiyosaki: I’ve never sold my silver. I just bought another 1,100 ounces at $60 per coin. I’ve sold some Bitcoin.

Silver is the metal of the future.

Watch now: https://t.co/2yILoTvJJ9

#silver #gold #finance #economy #dollar #usd @DanielaCambone @theRealKiyosaki

[Vincent Kennedy @VincentCrypt46]

Good Morning X.

a little nudge

[Krishan Gopaul @KrishanGopaul]

Total #gold demand in 2025 exceeded 5,000 tonnes for the first time. Combined with the record-breaking gold price rally, this yielded an unprecedented value of US$555bn. Read more in our just released Gold Demand Trends report: https://t.co/Y7H2NeL27b

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨MASSIVE CRASH IN THE MARKET.

Gold is down 8.2% and has wiped out nearly $3 trillion from its market cap.

Silver has dumped 12.2% and erased $760 billion from its market cap.

The S&P 500 has fallen 1.23% and erased $780 billion.

Nasdaq crashed more than 2.5% and wiped out $760 billion.

Trillions erased across metals and equities in the last hour.

[Krishan Gopaul @KrishanGopaul]

Central bank (and other official inst.) #gold demand totalled 863 tonnes in 2025, below the +1,000 tonne level but still significantly above the 2010-2021 annual average (473 tonnes). The National Bank of Poland was the largest buyer for the second consecutive year.

[Indiabullion.com 🇮🇳 @indiabullioncom]

@silvertrade Dear @silvertrade the prices of silver in #India which is a big country is at par with spot silver with a normal premium which international suppliers charge. Please be a responsible influencer and not a sensational one!! Joyalukkas is just one retailerand not the silver market.

[Silver Gold News @SilverGold_News]

Look At This Jaw-Dropping Setup For #Silver & #Gold:

'... A more accurate representation of an impending Currency Crisis is shown in the chart below'

https://t.co/IkEzsAZkTx

[Krishan Gopaul @KrishanGopaul]

Latest IMF data shows that the Central Bank of Jordan reduced its #gold reserves by almost 2 tonnes in November. Total gold holdings now stand at 71 tonnes, just 1 tonne lower than at the start of the year.

[Krishan Gopaul @KrishanGopaul]

Swiss #gold exports (HS7108) slowed 15% m/m in November, to 125 tonnes. Increased shipments to the UK and China in the month were offset by double-digit % declines to other major markets. On a YTD basis, gold exports are up 17% compared to the same period in 2024.

[Silver Gold News @SilverGold_News]

Silver may soar further as China curbs exports from January 1

Companies in the Communists-ruled nation have to get licences; India imported over 2,600 tonnes of #Silver in September-October

https://t.co/Ln4LZdBNZ2

[Krishan Gopaul @KrishanGopaul]

Global #gold ETFs saw net inflows of almost US$3bn (~21 tonnes) last week, pushing MTD net inflows to over US$4bn. On a YTD basis, net inflows now total US$82bn, equivalent to 746 tonnes.